Sentence examples for been able to lessen from inspiring English sources

"As bad as this is — and we knew this day was coming — we've been able to lessen the pain," said Jamie Horwitz, a spokesman for the Transport Workers Union.

I have been able to lessen the upset by finding creative solutions that allowed me to be present for them during this difficult time.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the announcement at a Pentagon news conference on Thursday, when he made clear his pleasure at being able to lessen the fiscal penalty on a civilian work force of about 800,000 people.

Higher consumption of red meat in early adulthood could be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and women might be able to lessen their chance of contracting the disease by consuming legumes, poultry, nuts and fish instead, a study has suggested.

Consequently, the ICC is able to lessen the cracking tendency of the concrete at the early age.

This result demonstrates the Tommasi [114] approach is able to lessen the effects of negative transfer from unrelated sources.

Chlamydial MOMP has immunogenic properties and is able to lessen development of infertility after Chlamydia infection [27], [28].

If we can alter the natural history of diabetes, we may be able to lessen microvascular and macrovascular complications.

Those patients with strong beliefs in CAM therapy are able to lessen these feelings, while those who are 'non-believers' are unable assuage this anxiety.

As expected, only overexpression of wt Mss4 was able to lessen the impact of the H2O2, the eIF3f and their combined apoptosis as well.

MLB, as the main component, plays a dual role of antioxidant and potent fibronectin antagonist to holt platelet aggregation, which is able to lessen ischemia associated myocardial damage.